Foxpro Crossfire

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I bought a FoxPro Crossfire.

It comes with 75 sounds pre-loaded, but I bought a bunch more... like 80... :runaway:

I spent a few days trying to figure out how to program the thing, cuz I didn't like the way the calls were numbered or ranked on it.

I had a devil of a time with one issue; for some reason, everytime I would add new sounds, then update the caller, it would duplicate a couple and omit others.

What was happening, was in the main FoxPro sound file, some of the calls had got listed with duplicate numbers: had 2 076's, 2 077's etc...
When I finally realized that, then I just went into that main file, and renamed each call, including changing the number so that I had no duplicates.

When I was done that, all the calls were then correctly loaded, on both the Crossfire and the TX505 remote.

The other thing is, I hate stupid abbreviations. By renaming the calls, they are displayed the way I want, and it doesn't affect the call of course.

Finally, I then put them all on an Excel spread sheet, colour coded, ranked by animals, then laminated the call sheet. Kinda like the play call sheets a football coach refers to on the sidelines.

So after messing with programming this thing for a week, I'm pretty much ready to get out there.

Going out Tuesday morning, then again Wed afternoon.

Spent the last week watching FoxPro Furtakers... over 'n over....
 
I went down to the Mayerthorpe area. I talked to a farmer that I had gotten a contact with. I took the county landowners map with me. We had a good visit, and he drew out all the land that I could go on. I also had made up a simple card, with my picture and my vehicle picture, license plate, my name phone numbers etc... The farmer was very appreciative of that btw.

I tried calling in 3 different spots, off one big field. No luck.

Then I packed up and went over to this other spot, he had told me about. And the beauty of that was, it was land that belonged to another guy, and he had phoned and gotten permission for me. Now that's good!

Anyway, there is a great creek, that winds across this land. I setup, at a gap in the creek, between the field systems. I had a huge open stubble field on my left, with the ground rising gently up to a big hill. Across the creek to my right, there were scattered groups of trees, and more loops of the creek and what was basically pasture type ground.

I used all coyote calls; mainly female yips, yodels, howls, whimpers, submissive calls, then I would mix in some pairs calling. After about a half hour of calling, I see a coyote come bouncing across the creek about 300 yards away. It disappeared into the creek, and I kept watching for it to pop out. I happened to glance to my left, and here was another coyote coming right across the open field!

I moved slightly to get ready to shoot. He saw me and stopped, but I also stopped moving (slight as it was), then he just looked at the caller and decoy, and started trotting towards it again.

He was a bit over 100 yards and moving when I shot. He dropped right there and I figured was down. The Preset on the Foxpro kicked in (coyote pup distress) and I was looking for a second coyote, when I see #1, hobbling away. It stopped at about 250 yards and I popped him and dropped him again, with a spine shot. Still not dead! Had to walk over and finish him off.

A nice male. Pretty good size, but I don't know if he was a real old dog. I don't think so.

After that, I stopped by the landowners place and thanked him again. Got permission to return anytime I want (as long as I text him).




 
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I don't know how others set up their callers, whether you have a FoxPro unit or any of the others.

But on mine, by going into the main file, that is created on the computer, then re-numbering and reorganizing the calls, and then building the cheat sheet that I did, man does that help.

Like simply having all the coyote calls in one group, and the female calls, group/pair calls and male coyote calls, all separated.

The other thing is, the way I organized the calls, I simply punch in the 3 digit number of whatever call and it loads instantly.

When you listen to and get familiar with these calls, I find on my FoxPro, there's a lot of calls that have similar sounds to them.
And I can blend them together into a sequence, that really sounds amazing.

Like there is a coyote pair call, that blends perfectly into the female submissive call.

And same with various female bark-howls, with longer howls.

Gotta work the next 7... bloody work gets in the way...
 
Congrats on the coyote...but even more on figuring out the FoxPro. I wanted to download more crow calls to my Hellfire...but got cold feet after reading how to do it 5 times. Still didn't make sense to me.

Can I send you mine? :)
 
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Congrats on the coyote...but even more on figuring out the FoxPro. I wanted to download more crow calls to my Hellfire...but got cold feet after reading how to do it 5 times. Still didn't make sense to me.

Can I send you mine? :)
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Buddy it's easy peasy once you dip your feet in the water!

I bought an extra 82 calls for mine. Cuz I wanted as many rabbit/hare and coyote calls as I could get, but I also went with stuff like kittens, magpies etc...

Then I spent 3 days loading them all on, and 3 days confused, cuz each time certain calls would be omitted.

But then like I said, I looked at the main file, that gets created on your computer.

See each time you add calls, the first thing you must do is download the 'Call Pack' that you've just bought.
Each time, they get added into the Main Foxpro File, that will be on your computer.

When I started looking through that Main FoxPro File, saw the duplicate numbers on several, then it was easy to realize, why some calls were being left out, and others doubled up.

Also, when you are in there, you just have to take and edit the name of the file, like you would any file on your computer.

The FoxPro call names are inconsistent, with spelling, use of abbreviations etc... And the numbers are not sequential either.
If you left the numbers the way they get downloaded, they would be spread all over. Simply start at 000, 001, 002 etc...

Here's how I set up mine:

000 CHALLENGE HOWL 2
001 COYOTE DUET 1
002 COYOTE DUET 2
003 COYOTE FAMILY
004 COYOTE FEMALE WHIMPERS... etc... all the way to )#) YIPPING COYOTES.

I put them in CAPS so they are easier to read, in the field.

I have 30 coyote calls. Then 11 different magpie, raven, crow calls, 30 something rabbit-hare-jackrabbit calls and on and on.

And then, when you finally organize all your calls, as I did, you boot it onto the Caller, then onto the Remote, and 'Presto', you've got it organized as you think best.

Cuz once you're renamed and reordered all your calls, in that Main File, that is exactly how they will appear on your FoxPro & Remote (and I have no idea how other callers would work).

And btw, one reason I organized certain groups of calls, as I did, was because it gave me a perfectly even cue card 'Cheat Sheet'.

3 columns of 26 calls each; 78 per side. I arranged them such that I simply flip the card, to see each side.
Colour coded all the different groups. Like the play cards you see an NFL coach holding. But I made it smaller.
And I laminated it. We've got an industrial quality laminator here at work. The thing will last a long time.

If that doesn't make sense to you, shoot me a PM and maybe I can help you more.

And if a bonehead like me can do it, well then anybody can! :cheers:
 
^ Oh yeah, one other thing I meant to say: to connect to your computer the FoxPro uses a basic USB 2.0 type printer cable, which FoxPro will sell you for $30 or you can get from Walmart for $8. :runaway:
 
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Yesterday I downloaded another bunch of calls.

It's been a month or so since I programmed the caller, but the same process worked out for me.

It took the opportunity to re-rank a bunch of calls, to organize them even better.

One little note: if you download sounds from FoxPro, they may contain a same appendix like ".24b" or ".fxp". Those are the proprietary format that FoxPro uses, and you have to leave that on the end of the call name. If you edit that out, then that call won't work.

I know cuz last night, when I was editing my new calls, I dropped that on them, thinking I didn't need that. Then had to spend half an hour re-editing, to include it. After that, everything functioned perfectly.

I've got pretty much every rabbit-Jackrabbit-hare call FoxPro has, plus pretty much every coyote call. Added some game bird chick type calls too. I think those will be 'killer' in about a month or so.
 
I downloaded a few varmint calls and a angry badger call to my prairie blaster a few weeks back. Heading to Calgary 2nd week of May and my uncle wants me to bring the caller out to see what kind of critters we can call out. Like you said, not too difficult, just gotta have at it, shouldn't be able to screw anything up too bad downloading sounds. Only thing I was worried about was taking the caller on the plane but had my travel agent check with the airline and everything is good to go.
 
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